The Trophy

 

 

Live your Mythical Trophy in Greece!

For our friends who enjoy extreme Off-Road driving, we design a spectacular 4×4 trophy, where you use your combined skills of off-road driving, endurance, navigation and adventurous spirit.

Outstanding natural beauty area is waiting for you. The route includes some extremely difficult and challenging sections, without any the help of additional support on the route.

The Route

The route will cover a total distance of approximately 70-120 Km/day through the famous Pindos mountains – around the area of Meteora.

The difficulty level will be extreme and adventurous.

The route is  difficult but drivable. In order to follow the correct route the co-pilot must navigate with the use of a road book, which will be distributed to each team at the start of each day.

All obstacles along the route are 100% natural and not man made. In order to complete the route, you will need skills of orientation, endurance, teamwork and driving ability.

 

Road Book and our route design principals

We have a long history, dating back to 2003, of designing top quality road books, from Rallies and Rally Raids to special events. We use our inhouse road book application TrailMaster as to present the road books.

GPS and Satellite is the state of the art nowadays, but even this, cannot replace knowledge that comes with hard work, when you actually walk in one area. 

 

Pindos Trophy Road Book Sample

 

To provide you with a constant, equal level of route difficulties, we start designing walking through the forest. We follow the labyrinth on each direction and finally we choose the appropriate paths, which meet the requirements we have set.

The limit set can be from easy to very extreme. The easy job is to make an extreme – nearly unpassable route. The difficult job is to weigh each natural obstacle and choose the ones that provide more fun! This year’s route is designed with these principals in mind: Route has to be difficult but drivable in dry weather. 

Now after the first scouting, we return with a team of cars having actually passed the route and we sketch the road book. This is the funniest time, as we actually “make” the route! 

We return back to our off-road office and then, using TrailMaster, we digitise the road book. After this, another visit to the track is waiting for us to check the digital draft. Any corrections required at this step, mean that we have to go back, make the corrections and then return again for another check. 

Finally if everything is ok, the road book is ready for you!

 

 

Food and accommondation

Hotel Famissi Eden (famissiedenhotel.com), will provide accommodation and food from 12:00 noon of November 2th through 12:00 in morning of November 8th. This includes breakfast, a snack for the day and dinner, without any beverages or alcohol drinks. Accommodation cost is included in Trophy fee, calculated per two persons in a double room. Each trophy car/team has a limited space in the parking area of the hotel, to use through the whole event. There is a package also for service crew and friends of the team, that includes everything!

 

Participation fee includes food and hotel, under the famous Meteora Rocks

 

Fuel

Each car should carry at the beginning of each day enough fuel to cover at least 170 kms of off-road terrain. There are many gas stations close to the hotel and the local prices are around 1.7 euro/liter for gasoline and 1.4 euro/liter for diesel.

 

Car Washing – Car Service

Car washing / cleaning in the parking area, is strictly forbidden. You will find washing services in the gas stations near the hotel. (walking distance – ask trophy secretary for coupons).

You can service the car in the parking area in the space provided to you, but it is forbidden to pollute the area with oil/diesel/gasoline etc. Please drop your garbage into the provided bins and dispose the used oil etc at the places provided in the gas stations.
It is forbidden to test cars/engines in the area of the hotel parking. It is forbidden to make noise during quiet hours (22:30-07:00).

In case special services will be needed, we can direct you to service areas/shops near the hotel.
Please respect the place.

 

Medical Assistance

Medically qualified members of personnel will accompany the entire event.  If participants require regular medication they must assume responsibility to provide their own medical supplies.

Technical Assistance

Teams are permitted to receive technical assistance & support at the end of each day and prior to the start of the following day. During each day teams may only use tools and parts carried by participating cars.